Motion-induced blindness: test for the severity of ADHD : eChalk illusion
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- The success of this illusion depends on your ability to focus and not be distracted. This illusion can be therefore used to determine severity of ADHD in an individual or conversely your ability to focus and hold your attention despite distractions.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - or ADHD - is thought to be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain that affects attention, concentration and impulsivity.
In this illusion you must fixate on the flashing spot in the middle of the screen. As you stare at the spot the surrounding yellow spots will gradually vanish from your consciousness one by one. As soon as you let your eyes wander the effect is broken and the dots reappear. So you must focus and fixate on the flashing spot to make the dots vanish.
If you can only make 1 or 2 of the spots vanish you are easily distracted and find it difficult to hold your attention for long. Individuals diagnosed with ADHD are rarely capable of making all the dots vanish; in severe cases the individual does not observe the disappearance of any dots at all.
If you can make all the spots vanish you have a normal attention span.
However, if you can make all the spots vanish for more than five seconds your ability to hold your attention is truly extraordinary.
It is thought that only 1 in 100,000 people have the power of mind to make all the dots vanish for 10 seconds or more.
An explanation for motion induced blindness...
The human brain is the most complex system in the known universe. Both consciously and subconsciously it processes a multitude of tasks simultaneously. Such intense processing requires a considerable amount of energy. In order to reduce its power consumption the human brain has developed a few tricks and shortcuts. For the most part these tricks work flawlessly and they serve us well in life, however, optical illusions, such as motion-induced blindness, are special cases which reveal where corners are being cut by the brain.
It’s seems that motion induced blindness is an evolutionary development that goes back at least to the dinosaurs. If you are a creature that is being preyed upon, then generally you have no need to be concerned about static objects; stones and plants are not going to hunt you down and eat you. So in a world where predators pounce the brain has evolved to keep moving objects at the forefront of our perception, whereas static objects quite literally dissolve out of our consciousness. This conserves precious brain processing energy for the more important task of survival. Indeed the hunting tactics of many predators have adapted to the fact that static things go unnoticed; cats stalk their prey keeping perfectly still when they think they’ve been rumbled, snakes and spiders remain motionless until their prey is close enough for the lightning strike.
This power saving shortcut is just as useful for predators as their prey. A hawk soaring above grassland is not concerned with the static scenery but is most interested in the scuttle of a tiny mouse. Huge savings in mental processing can be made if the brain only processes that which scurries.
It seems that our early ancestors, as both the hunter and the hunted, have evolved to make these mental energy-saving short-cuts too. So in the case of this illusion, the moving background always has our attention but the static dots, even though they are bright yellow, dissolve out of consciousness.
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While this is a real illusion, I don't think it has anything to do with ADHD. There are small involuntary eye movements called microsaccades (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsaccade) which make it difficult for anyone to focus on a single point for too long.
I also have ADHD, and I can easily make the dots disappear when I go to fullscreen and get close to the monitor, as the dots are large relative to the size of my eye's microsaccades. When I move further away from my monitor, the dots consume a smaller portion of my visual field and it becomes harder to maintain the illusion.
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For those worried, this is not a screamer. It is a legit video.
Thank you for this. Those AOL emails still haunt me 😂
man PTSD is real
That's not why I was worried😅
Thank you 😂 I was scared
wow
That one adhd person who manadged to completely hyperfocus: 🙂
It's just severe acute mental instruction to simply focus and keep focus. Once you start don't stop simple as that. Any thought that rises? Ignore, fight, and replace it to maintain focus. I use this at the gym too and I'm accomplishing goals I never thought possible
I thought I could
I’ve been trying for 5 mins
I thought all the ppl with ADHD or ADD get distracted?
@@a_multidimentional_mess5561 it just happens sometimes when you try to focus my guy
Blinking ruins it
Yeah I’m tired and my eyes hurt if I keep them open too long
Yup, but if you keep it for like 10-15 seconds then it works even if you keep the screen away
Something cool is when it’s over close your eyes in a dark room and you see circles spinning backwards :)
Or even If you Move your Eye Balls slightly
I’m diagnosed with ADHD and when I couldn’t make any disappear after trying four times I got angry 😂
Priscilla R same 😂😂😂
👍😳
It is not ADHD since we have hyperfocus. You might just be regarded
Me neither
Lol. I threw the iPad on the bed
This has nothing to do with concentration. It has to do with how long you can hold your eye muscles still which is extremely hard for any human.
Ugh thank you
Yeah, the moment I blink it's a full reset. I don't consider blinking as an inability to focus
I would notice a dot or two disappear, but then quickly reappear. I could feel this twitch in my eyes every time a dot or two would disappear, and the dots simultaneously reappear. I felt like I was still looking at the center dot! Why'd that happen? I was determined. I had watched this video for the third time when I mentally said at myself, "Why won't these dots disappear!" I'd been thinking about the dots not disappearing. The task is to look at simply look at the center dot. The task is not to make the outer three dots disappear. Sure, I'd been physically looking at the center dot with my eyes. I'd wonder if my thoughts are immediately turning inward for stimulation. I thought of a plan to somehow focus on something I can focus on doing all day and connecting that task with staring at the center dot. Immediate thought was how I get a song stuck in my head all the time. Time to turn this dot-staring task into a song and see what happens. This dot's flashing between the colors green and blue. It's flashing quick like some fast-paced metal Motorhead! I started mentally hearing Lemmy shouting "Blue! Green! Blue! Green! Blue! Green! Green!" As soon as I consciously thought of saying the wrong color I noticed all three dots reappear. WHAT? When did the dots disappear? Eh, screw it. I'm just sitting here getting my Jimmies rustled over some dots. There's no reward for completing anything this video tells me to do. I do have this idea for a weird heavy metal song, though.
Bruh, just by how long this comment is (and the little idea for a heavy metal song) I can tell you have some form of ADHD
Y'all try to act quirky so fucking hard like we can tell
''I do have this idea for a weird metal song though... 🤔😜🤘'' gurl stfu
@@qannicc its not that deep take a breath
I aint reading allat
How close your eyes are to the screen makes a huge difference, as I've noticed
That's the flaw of this test
I didn't find any such flaws.
Cause you are seeing distractions in real life to the sides of your screen. You gotta have it fullscreen, without seeing around your device at distractions
I get the same phenomenon either way.
I feel like this video is basically just to test your eyes' blind spots. I remember seeing videos like this but for the blindspots
I'm diagnosed with ADHD. No dots disappeared- they flickered but then my eyes were immediately drawn to them. Can people make them disappear for a few seconds?
WayOtt a second maybe...i look at the center then one or two disappear then i look at them slightly trying to focus in the middle then the other one disappear then i only focus on the center...but they keep appearing and disappearing unintentionally paying attention to them😅
WayOtt yea me too their just flickering
have you tried it with medication? curious if any difference
I get scared when they disappear 😂
WayOtt I’m diagnosed with ADHD also no disappeared
I’ve been doing this weird meditation lately where I just stare at a fixed point for a prolonged time and eventually I notice my vision starts to get blurry and it looks like the background is shifting. Eventually the object or point I’m staring at “disappears” into what looks like a black hole/spot and I can hold this for a few seconds until I have a thought about noticing it and then I have to try again. I’ll do this for 15-25 minutes sometimes just because it feels so good doing it. All my stress and worries dissipate for a temporary period and I feel like my mind is free
Fixed point meditation 🙂
Idk if you know or not, but it's a legit technique
Awesome! I’ve been doing this for years starting around the age of 10(I had convinced myself that one day I was going to be able to see through the ceiling I feel childlike folly/wisdom influence what happen next) I am now 45. It’s an amazing way to relax the body and the mind initially. Eventually with extended focus and time I began to see what I call the violet wash. It looks almost like someone’s slowly pouring a viscous fluid across my visual field which is Violet but somehow contains all of the other colors on the spectrum within its core. Not sure how else to explain it.
Then in about my mid to late 20s I began to see an additional type of what I would call fractal light webbing emerging from the violet light. Said webbing was sensitive to my focus. And would create what I can only describe as eddies within the energetic field that I was seeing, as if my focus created a vortex and affected the general field.
I began applying this focus in different settings within my life Walking/talking/hiking/yoga.
Somewhere around age 27 or 28, I went for a walk on a new moon evening and began my normal focus routine as I walked around the neighborhood. A few minutes into my walk/focus meditation, everything within my field of view began to spiral into what I can only call a pitch black vortex, all of what was real and what I could see was draining into nothingness. I was in an extremely rural area so there were no street lights and almost no lighting around. But what I thought to be a pitch black knight that surrounded me was dwarfed by the blackness that all I considered to be reality was draining into. As all of what I could see drained into this black nothingness it began to transform into all I can describe as a iridescent flaming serpent looking energy that was coming directly out of my forehead, it was almost like a fireworks display in its expression But it was innately connected to the violet light I describe as if to be born of and emerge from it.
Well! Thank you for listening or reading if you did. I just wanted to say keep doing what you’re doing there’s something else within us that has capabilities beyond what we consider to be normal. It’s amazing
yeah its called trataka but idk if you know this technique with a different name. used for achieving focus at a single point , it is a technique which is used in spiritual practices.
I know this!
Can you update what happened after continuing to do this if you did?
There are several mitigating circumstances that can cause one to fail this "test" lol. I tried it both with and without caffeine consumption and it was a challenge, but entirely doable, without caffeine, while with caffeine I found it nearly impossible to make more than two dots disappear.
The other comment about microsaccades is spot-on.
I can't freaking hold my laugh when they actually disappear lol
When the video ended, I looked at my bedpost and the center was swirling. Cool illusion!
I can manage 2 secs at most.
Same here
Same, damn this is actually quite hard
More like 2 dots for me
Not even two for me
Wait what I am doing in the comment section 🙂🙂
The so-called "normal" individuals can blend parts of their reality into nonexistence, making them more compliant and better at following orders and half-truths while ignoring the full picture. Conversely, those who perceive the entire reality and can't compartmentalize parts of it (leading them to ask more questions) are often labeled as having ADHD and are prescribed medication. 🤔 Thanks for posting 📫 🙏 I truly understand what is exactly the problem is and it is not really my problem but the problem of managing society 💯
There are a billion ways that can limit attention, eg your ability to focus is higher at the start of the day, if you have fewer stressors etc. This is not an adhd test.
@@IkigaiObi idk about hypnosis but it is certainly misinformation to get views from people desperately trying to confirm they have ADHD
What if your eyes are just dry af and you can’t go long without blinking. This is actually something the brain does naturally. I saw it in Brain Games.
That ability to hyperfocus and the rare occasion where your allergies aren't causing you to blink constantly: Magic.
I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was a child, and then later when being tested for another disorder at 27, I was told that the ADHD didn't show up on the test. It wasn't that I had been misdiagnosed, as a child the symptoms of ADHD were definitely present. I believe I just got better at working around the disorder until it no longer affects me on a measurable level.
I can make 2 dots, the bottom two usually, disappear for over 5 seconds, but not over 10. And I can make all 3 dots disappear for 2 to 3 seconds.
I have ADHD. I was able to make all dots vanish, but only for about two seconds. But I also agree with some commenters that this doesn't prove wether I have it or not. There are several other factors not taken into account.
Is your adhd diagnosed?
@@ananyabhagat7052 I think so? I mean I don't have proof in front of me right now but I remember being on a medication that was supposed to help me focus in school. They later decided it wasn't working, but I think part of that was because I was being sneaky and spitting them out sometimes. They sometimes got stuck in my throat and made me feel VERY ill.
My coworkers are also saying that's it's obvious I have it lol
@@TheOddHawk ahh right, i asked bcoz my result is similar to yours. I was also able to make them vanish multiple times but for a really short time frame. So just wondering do i have to do something extra to match the ppl who have a normal attention span??
@ananyabhagat7052 no idea! I think I'd maybe be able to do it for longer if it didn't make my eyes hurt lol.
When it comes to add, its not as simple as just having a short attention span. You might get very distracted while trying to read a high school history textbook, but have laser focus when reading your favorite fanfiction or whatever. If it's not something I'm interested in, reading it takes several retries and all of my effort.
But yeah, big part of this is that it just makes my eyes hurt so the effect doesn't last long for me.
I’m not diagnosed with ADHD, but I always saw the dots. They just never disappeared for me:-(
i have ADD, but since the video was interesting i got hyperfocused and the dots disappeared for the entire video lmao
ADHD is more common lol also it definition should be change
this means you're going to die soon :(
So I saw this video a week ago - this was my wake up call that I need to seek medical help. not only did I not manage to make the yellow dots to disappear I couldnt resist to look or notice them .
After help Currently on 20mg Foclin XR for ADHD and I feel wierd and unsettling because I have never in my life felt this way it’s so wierd a new to me I know hold my focus on the dot for 4-5 seconds, and I for the first time have a clean room for 1 week in a row .
The only bad thing is , it’s so new to me that I get mild headaches at the end of the day because I’m not used to doing stuff at all. I worked on my entire quarter of missed work on my computer for 9 hours non stop , because I didn’t have a reason to stop . That gave me a throw bing headace hopefully I get used to working long .
Wtf-I’ve never taken my time to write stuff like this in my entire life
The headache is probably a side effect of the drugs. I'd stop taking them for a week or two and see if that helps.
@@JonnySolomon hey, congrats for your achievement. Sorry for digging this up but does your ability to communicate and stay connected with your friends improved?
Three years later - how are you doing?
@@al201103I completely stopped Focalin XR and switched to adderall works wonders and my life has improved but had to stop taking it because I got a job that’s very fast pace and versatile and it would make me a perfectionist taking my time on everything I did and I would get nervous. Hoping to restart soon.
Me: can barely make two dots vanish for more than five seconds
Also me: *F U C K*
And then there's me who needed to give my eyes a break. And every time I blinked, all the dots would reappear again.
THAT HURT!
I was thinking that my eyes hurt...
First attempt watching this I made 1 dot disappear for 3 sec and could do 2 dots for 2 seconds. After practicing a few dozen times, I figured out a trick, and can now get all dots to go away. Avg time is 3 seconds, but I was able to hit 6 seconds several times. The trick for me was.. 1st I made sure my distance to screen was comfortable (I wear glasses and get double vision). I then allowed my eyes to blur on the green flicking and while I got distracted, I allowed my peripheral vision to pay attention the ends of the red square as it started to rotate. If the square is roating smoothly, I'm in the zone and doing it right. Seems my mind, allows me to peak at the red tips for a sec and go back to green without reintroducing the dots.
I had an easier time making them dissapear after doing some running.
There's a ton of study on the cognitive benefits of regular exercise for people with ADHD! Especially intense cardio! Comparing executive function to a gas tank that runs out throughout the day, you not only get an immediate temporary boost to your gas tank the day you exercise but also level up your baseline and increase the capacity of your gas tank after months and years of consistent habitual exercising. Stimulant medication is the first line of treatment and has the greatest immediate effect, but habitual exercise is the second most beneficial thing you can do. Rant over.
It took me 19 seconds before I could make them disappear and that was whenever I was trying. The first time I watched this video they would only disappear for a second at most. Probably more like milliseconds. They don't stay away for more than 1-2 seconds at most. I was diagnosed with ADD a few years ago though.
More of a test of how long i can keep my eyes open x(
stared at it for so long now the comment section is wavy. got to 10seconds tho. staring at it without blinking helps, moving your eyes all over the place will break the illusion.
Can anyone make an hour long video of this??? Would love to use it for my meditation practice
I can. Are you still here? Also it wouldn't be on this channel it would be on my other channel @fake10hourentertainment17.
I love watching the dot in the middle turn from royal blue, to green, to a mix of blue green..
Fun
In 1:49 I got it 😅
At 150 I started getting frustrated thinking this guy was lying to me
They are flashing for me because I keep laughing Everytime one goes bye bye
ADHD is painful to live with. Emotionally. Sometimes you can see yourself struggle like an out of body experience, you're looking at yourself and asking yourself "what do people think of me? Do they see this too? Why am I like this? Can't I just stop already? I bet people think I'm on some sort of drug." I wish I didn't have ADHD and to the people with me that do, we can all get through it. And to the people that don't that fake it, you're not cute. And to those who are just curious about what ADHD is like, ask a fellow person who has been diagnosed. They will try to explain it. My favorite way to explain it, is my mind is like a broken windows computer, two tabs are playing music, one is a podcast, a game is running and the home screen crashed. All at the same time.
Impossible. I've not even been diagnosed with ADHD and it was impossible.
I am diagnosed with ADD, and I managed about 6-7 seconds on my first watch of this movie.
The way you do it is to let go of the focus in the same way as with far-away eyes when you are looking off in the distance and not focusing on anything with your eyes.
If you have hyper focus during watching this while having ADHD I'm sure you can make them all disappear for a while.
how do you get hyper focus and adhd at the same time???
Why would you hyper focus on something so boring
@@albertnan2999 hyperfocus is a symptom of adhd, basically what happens when you are unable to control your focus and once you've hyperfocused on something, you literally cant bring yourself to stop for hours
@@albertnan2999 hyperfocus or hyperfixation is a trait of adhd :)
@@albertnan2999 I'm not diagnosed (yet), but personally every few months or so I can hyperfixate on one specific thing (whether it's a show or subject or whatever), and it's the only thing I'll be able to solely focus on without being distracted for a while. if I try I can make myself, but usually it only lasts for a few seconds.
⚠️ I HAVE ANOTHER TEST: Just close your eyes, and imagine a big apple spinning next to your eyes. It Looks big. Look at it with your mind's eye; look all the intricate patterns of red, yellow, and different color tones on the surface, while it spins from left to right. Now, try to make it spins from right to left. Now, make believe the apple is a planet and you are on a spaceship flying on the stratosphere of the apple. Look how big, bright and colorful it is, look at the sun reflections on it. Look at the stars sorrounding the apple. Can you see the apple bright and clear whenever you want, like more real than real ? Whenever you close your eyes ? Can you imagine everything this way ? This is a great imagination test. 🎉🎉❤
i find it hard to look at an exact spot like my eyes twitch a bit but i can make them vanish no problem
Same
i have adhd and couldnt focus at all, but when you gave me the challenge with the 10 seconds it was no problem at all. i even forgot, that i am sitting in a car with loud music and heavy bass on
this hurt my eyes. ouchie. and I could barely manage getting one dot to disappear
They keep popping in and out of existence!! Maddening!
Glad I finally found something to help. I'll watch it later.
😂😂
Well when you know, you know.
🤨
I keep getting to the point where I'm seeing the last one disappear and then my brain just goes "where did it go" and then I search for it like a dumbass.
I don't believe the validity of the test. Unfocus seems to work just as well as focus. Keep in mind that these guys have no idea how anything really works, they just find rough correlations and devise tests like this that give partial/false result. Like most tests, the ONLY thing it proves is that you can pass the test, which means you MAYYYYY be able to focus.
Like JamBooBx said - People are making the obvious mistake that staring at a dot = "focus" = "attention" = "ADHD" and pretty much none of this is real, brains are extremely diverse and the mechanisms of all these functions are unknown (they'll lie and say otherwise)
Why... is it really possible to make them all dissappear? I can't, no matter how hard I try... at least one of them is always visible😭
The three yellow dots were gone when I staring the flashing dot
This is genius for the algorithm, you could put any audio behind it and brainwash people
I have ADHD, I've been meditating, I can make all 3 go away, short term though, with practice you can go indefinitely.
The fact that I went back and focused on the yellow dots to make sure they actually disappeared because of the illusion is probably also an indication I don't have ADHD.
Can’t focus while listening to him talking about the other dots lol 😂
Need to turn sound off
two years later and I still have trouble doing it properly, even though a random Tuesday when my mind was finally at ease, I could do it
I almost had it but I couldn’t make them vanish, it felt like my eyes had a mind of they’re own and the second the dots were about to disappear my eyes would do what felt like a jerking motion
Severe ADHD here. All dots vanished with no problem.
Great test.
AHHHH MY BRAIN HURRRRTS AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
...WTF... I've already posted here!? MY BRAIN DOES HURT!!! WHAT IS HAPPENING!?!??!
Instructions unclear. I am now a lamp post.
I can make them vanish for a tiny amount of time like 4 seconds at most,I think this is also why I'm so good at multi tasking so it's a disability and a power at the same time
I was able to make the dots disappear but every time they did that my eyes went to see what happened and it went away.
I think watching this video instead of writing my English paper says a lot of me
If you allow the center green dot double, it makes it easier to sustain and stay focused on more than 3 outter yellow dots.
By allowing the balance to continue,.... My results was that no for disappeared.
Pretty cool visual experiment.
I don't see a commonality with adh. Further experiments might draw a different conclusion.
Wild. In the first few seconds all of the yellow dots vanished, freaking me out, and afterwards I had great difficulty making them vanish again
The last one doesn't go away. And I do have ADHD.
Do u have an official diagnosis?
nyan does gaming Yep I do
Tuan Nguyen yea same but only 1 faded
once one dot appeared again i completely lost focus and just automatically stared at that dot
I tried really hard and it didn't work.... but I do not have ADHD
I did it through sheer will. I never had bad add but I still had to create tricks in order to survive in this world
Is this test legitimate? I was tested at a psychological clinic in 2020 and was told that I don't have ADHD, yet I failed this test. Could anyone post a reply and explain this to me? I am concerned.
You can have ADHD and not "test" that you have ADHD. ADHD is often misdiagnosed as another condition. ADHD can also fall under the "clinical" threshold meaning you have the traits but not severely enough to qualify as "clinical" ADHD. Give yourself some grace, and get a second opinion.
I have a diagnosed ADHD and I can make all spots vanish for short, but repetitive periods of time
im 36 years old, i have learned to control myself more than I used to, i had huge trouble getting all 3 to disappear, I think i did it for a second, then couldn't again no matter how hard i tried, i had about 2.5 disappear at any given point, the 3rd so close. interesting.
Im diagnosed and managed all the yellow dots for roughly 4 seconds on 3 occasions then towards the end couldn't make any dots disappear. Have just had coffee and am quite relaxed. Can't imagine it working if I wasn't.
Here’s a question: assuming for the moment that this is a legit gauge of ADD, is there a significance to what order you can make the dots “disappear” or which dots you consistently stop seeing in which order? For me, I can easily “lose” the bottom left dot, then the top dot (not as easily). Haven’t been able to get all 3 to disappear yet.
Yes. Watching full screen makes a difference.👍😎
I have attained sharingan
That tripped out my vision a little bit when I went to read the comments
Shhh. I need to concentrate...
It's so hard to try to stay fixed wow! Just 1 or 2 seconds without seeing the other dots... I need to train this. Seems fun!
I can only do one but then when I notice it going away it comes back ffs lmao
[all of the yellow dots disappeared]
Me : YES YES
[the dots come back cuz i was thinking about it]
Me : FUUUUUU-
ADHD is 2007. I have ADUHD
AD8K bro get with the times
It may not have relation to ADHD, but is calming.
Count the number of times it blinks.
I counted 212. What did you count ?
so does it count if the dots are still semi visible as brown spots instead of yellow?
Um, why does the grid double when I try to focus? Also one of the yellow balls duplicates itself and gets closer to the center. So in the end I see 8 yellow balls.....
Oh that just means you have severe schizophrenia
I genuinely tried, but when one would disappear I would look where it disappeared, and if one stayed I would look over to it. I could eventually make them all disappear after trying to drown out the audio but only for less than a second. I’ve always found these kinds of eye tricks difficult to get to work.
I feel you, I could never watch those magic-eye videos, and felt so jealous of people in the comment sections saying it is an experience to behold.
I'm too high for this
I have a bad case of adhd and I'm 9
I have it really bad and I'm 11
I got them all gone bitches
@@lucaslopez1155 lmfao
“Disappear from consciousness” - no.
“Disappear from field of view” - yes.
I’d counter that being able to focus on one dot in the center while not moving to any of the other dots isn’t exactly attention span persay. Our instinct is to notice change, It’s not that I can’t focus on the center dot its that when one or two dots disappear my brain want’s to check to see if they are still there or not
Diagnosed adhd here. I was able to make two dots disappear for a bit and then not really afterwards. It kinda sucked but then i realized that it just makes me more alert to my surroundings by default
Yes. People with ADHD make the best firefighters, EMTs, etc. because they're in their element during an emergency. Their brain speeds up and reacts very quickly as opposed to other people who are paralyzed by fear. ADHDs observe and respond with lightning speed when the shtf.
As a child, I was able to hyperfocus so much, I could make my surroundings disappear around CRTs and transparency film projections.
I’m going to use this as a mindfulness practice
Only proves to me that ADHD is a silly, cover-all diagnosis. I'm an average Jane and I couldn't make all the dots disappear.
I did not, as a schoolchild, run riot in my classroom. Any lack of focus was corrected by my teachers as in ' Sit down and be quiet or.....'
Thank you teachers, that you trained focus into me and didn't allow my whole life to be ruined by pandering to my strong, childish will.
Don't kid yourself. Your adhd comes through loud and clear just through your one comment. There is no way a kid with your atittude would have been able to listen or pay attention, and that atittitude comes hand-in-hand with juvernile adhd.
No nods disappeared and I wasn't even listening to what you were saying, great just great now I have to rewatch this video just to hear what you said
Testing on a smartphone, I do not have ADHD: I could make all three dots vanish only for a fraction of a second. I'll try later. Perhaps there are certain patterns of mind that allow for better performance. I have another focus test: Close your eyes, and imagine a big apple next to your eyes. Look at it with your mind's eye; look all the intricate patterns of red, yellow, and different color tones while it spins from left to right. Now, try to make it spins from right to left. Now, make believe the apple is a planet and you are on a spaceship flying on the stratosphere of the apple. Look how big it is, look at the sun reflections on it. Look at the stars sorrounding the apple. Can you see the apple bright and clear whenever you want ? Whenever you close your eyes ? Can you imagine everything ? I can. 🎉🎉❤
I can target fixate, for the most part, and still pay attention to things in periphery. That being said, I can make the first two dots disappear quickly, the third takes a a bit longer, and as soon as it disappears, they're all back. I can't hold it for more than second.
I can make all the dots stay while separating the square .
I have to say that I had slightly different results depending on the distance between me and the screen. I had a couple disappear for a milisecond while you were talking and I was close to the screen. When you stopped talking none disappeared. Same when I was further from the screen, I could see everything nearly all of the time.
Diagnosed ADHD btw ;)
The music and voice made it way more serious than it had to be! 😂
Yeeeaaah diagnosed ADHD here. Mine was more attention-based. They used to call it ADD, but it’s all ADHD now. The dots didn’t stay gone.
All it did was make the comment section melt. I don't have ADHD, and never had issues with it. But I was incapable of making all 3 dots disappear and even with just the two, I was only able to do it for like 3 seconds.
This reminds me of the 3D "magic eye" images of the 90s. The more you can look past the flashing dot the more the others disappear.
Diagnosed ADHD. They start to fade but only one or two actually vanish. That doesn't last more than a second. The motion always pulls my attention away from the flashing dot.
When the dots dissapear, for some reason i quickly move my eyes to the dots and it re-appear again. Guess i really have ADHD.